ATTITUDE OF PRE-SREVICE TEACHER TRAINEES TOWARDS JOINT FAMILY IN HIMACHAL PRADESH

Abstract

The paper attempted to assess the attitude of pre service teacher trainees towards joint family and to explore the change (if any); therein. The study involves exploratory as well as descriptive orientation. This study was conducted on one hundred and eighteen graduates and post graduates drawn from the universe comprising of students enrolled in Colleges of Education in Distt. Kangra under H.P University, Shimla during the academic session 2010-11. The data for this study was gathered by conducting interviews with the pupil teachers with the help of interview schedule which was specifically developed for this purpose. The entire population considered for study belongs to Hindu community. On the basis of analysis of information about the social background characteristics of the sampled respondents it was found that there were 39.83 per cent males and 60.17 percent females; 83.89 per cent high caste Hindus and 16.11 per cent low caste Hindus; 44.92 per cent born in villages, 28.8 per cent in towns and 26.27 per cent born in cities; 35.59 per cent brought up in villages, 33.05 percent in town and 31.36 per cent brought in cities; 57.63 per cent residing in urban areas and 42.37 dwelling in rural area; 52.54 per cent brought up in nuclear families and 47.46 per cent in joint families; 55.93 per cent from nuclear households and 44.07 per cent from joint; and the average age was about 22 years. This showed that there was preponderance of females over the males and majority hailed from nuclear families. Such a distribution of back ground characteristics of the sample had helped to make some generalization about the attitudes of the educated Hindu youths in Himachal Pradesh.